FH2: BURNT

FH2 BURNT

This was the first activity of the afternoon. Participants had to write three post-it notes relating to the use of Social Media in teaching and learning to 'clear the air'. We call this activity BURNT.

Orange: Imagined worst case scenario

Green: Super positive personal aspiration

Pink: True life horror story

We then clustered these into sub themes over the course of the afternoon and revisited them in the final hack session. Please feel free to use these insights collected from the day.

ORANGE

Imagined worst case scenarios

Theme: Disconnection

Idea for using social media for learning/teaching which fails to engage

Expectations of what using a service/operating in a place will deliver are not met by reality – rather than feeling more connected people end up feeling disconnected – damaging on self-image and personal narrative

Having no connections

Excluding students through choice of social media

Unmoderated posts – possibly leading to exclusion

Theme: Psychological/physical harm

Band of trolls – cascade

Student commits suicide because of trolling on course FB page

Having an academic come to you to say a student is being abused

Physical harm and/or death

How to react to negative comments

The entire thing is reduced to personal and institutional marketing. We are all just doing unpaid digital labour in the service of corporate platforms to organise students (and/or colleagues) suffering harm/distress as a result of social media interactions

Theme: Tech Fail

Failing to educate learners about how to safeguard themselves and their data on social media

University data etc. being hacked or having data stolen

Host company loses all your stuff!

A platform goes bust and you lose your interaction/pricing model makes features unavailable

Theme: Abuse of power

Delivering students to markets

Governments using social media data (predictions, profiling etc.) against students and people in general

Using SocMed with students to discuss e.g. Human Rights, students coming from Human Rights abusing countries, identity revealed and they get hunted down and killed for having opened up or criticised regime

Donald Trump using Twitter as official communication platform

Neo Liberal Agenda neutralises critique

Theme: Reputation

Damage to reputation

“Losing Face” especially if you are a newcomer in an online community of practice

Theme: Job insecurity

Oversimplification of ideas and expression: the redaction of complex ideas to soundbites, memes (itself a simplification) and LOL2

Theme: Exposure

Students may not think about the fact that they are vulnerable as social media is in the public arena and their contributions can be found by anyone. They may see negative effects and regret what they have put “out there”